What Duo Should Host This Year’s Oscars?: Our Recommendations

It’s been half a decade since James Franco and Anne Hathaway were paired as Oscar hosts, providing comedians (and, well, anyone with a Twitter account) with ample material for years to come. As if in reaction to the widespread criticism that 2011 telecast received, the two-host model has been done away with ever since, as Billy Crystal, Seth MacFarlane, Ellen DeGeneres, and Neil Patrick Harris have shepherded the four most recent ceremonies. (Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin had co-hosted the ceremony the prior year, in 2010.)

But we are due for a return to the duo model, as Oscars co-producer David Hill has told Entertainment Weekly that there will be two individuals at the helm this year. “There will be multiple hosts for sure — there will be two,” Hill said. (See? We told you.)

So, this would seem to indicate Hill (and co-producer Reginald Hudlin) already know who this pair will be, which means, you got it, it’s time to try and predict who they might have already secured!

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The other reigning comedy powerhouse duo featuring an Amy, these two have graduated from the Golden Globes, and could make the shift to the big leagues. (Fey has said in the past she was not interested in taking the gig, though that was several years ago.)

Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. Let’s give Anne another shot, with a co-host who could match her enthusiasm (and maybe even surpass it). (Though the Oscars would have to be prepared to cover a massive kombucha bill for rehearsals.)

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer / Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Either of these choices would be an easy way to generate support among the Williamsburg-y farmer’s-market tote-bag-toting masses. (Though it’s also easy to imagine the over-50 population squinting at the television and exclaiming, “Did some kids crash the stage?!!?! Are they from that Girls show? What is this!”)

Chris Hemsworth and Liam Hemsworth. They could just lounge on lawn chairs in tank tops and talk about, like, kettle bells and sand dunes, and it’d probably go over just fine.

Kylie Jenner and Brooklyn Beckham. If they really wanna appeal to the Snapchat Generation, this would be the equivalent of getting Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Speaking of Brangelina, can you imagine?!?!?! Us Weekly would probably declare a state of emergency.